'Born healthy, well nursed': Birth records of 'Baby Girl Bouvier' Jackie discovered in a New York hospital vault to be donated to Kennedy Museum in Boston

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was born a 'healthy' and 'normal' baby that 'slept well' and 'nursed well,' according to her birth records, released for the first time after being found at Southampton Hospital.

The birth papers of 'Baby Girl Bouvier,' born July 28, 1929, are being donated by the Long Island, New York hospital to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston.

The hospital's president and CEO, Robert
Chaloner, says the decision to donate the records to the museum was a 'little bit bittersweet.'

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was born a 'healthy' and 'normal' baby that 'slept well' and 'nursed well,' according to her birth records, released for the first time after being found at Southampton Hospital

But, 'Our job is to preserve lives, not documents,' he told the Wall Street Journal. 'This is a national document that belongs in our national records.'

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The four-page, handwritten medical file and a
one-page typed discharge summary was discovered in 2009 by Robert Ross, the hospital's vice president of community and government relations.

After scouring an old hospital safe for
documents to help mark its 100th anniversary, he said he came across on a ragged old yellow manila envelope.'

The future first lady was the eldest daughter of socialite Janet Lee Bouvier and stockbroker John Vernou Bouvier III; she was an avid equestrian in East Hampton during the 1930s

Jackie Kennedy's younger sister, Lee Radziwill (right), was also born in Southampton Hospital; the records are marked Jacqueline Bouvier, with the words, 'Now Mrs. Jack Kennedy (Mrs. President Kennedy)' added later

The birth papers of 'Baby Girl Bouvier,' born July 28, 1929, are being donated to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston (pictured: Jackie and John F Kennedy on their wedding day)

It was marked Jacqueline Bouvier, with the words, 'Now Mrs. Jack Kennedy (Mrs. President Kennedy)' added to the top. Years later, someone then scribbled, 'Mrs. Jacqueline Onassis.'

'I was holding in my hands a piece of American history,' Mr Ross said.

The birth records state that Baby Girl Bouvier, a 'newborn
female Catholic' weighing in at eight pounds, was 'born healthy, slept
well, nursed well' and received a 'final diagnosis' of 'normal infancy'
from a 'Dr. Caldwell' during her 14-day hospital stay.

The birth records state that Baby Girl Bouvier, a 'newborn female Catholic' weighing in at eight pounds, was 'born healthy' and ' slept well, nursed well' (pictured: a Jackie Kennedy in 1960)

The library sought and received consent from Kennedy's daughter, Caroline Kennedy (pictured in 1962), for the release of the records, and the library approved the donation on November 15

There are no immediate plans for the files' to go on display, but it is assumed they will be seen during anniversaries of the former First Lady, who died in 1994 (pictured: Kennedy with her sister, Lee Radziwill)

The library sought and received
consent from Kennedy's daughter, Caroline Kennedy, for the release of the records, and the library
approved the donation on November 15.

'The papers will now be in a repository where they will be preserved for the ages,' said Tom Putnam, director of the Kennedy Library.

While there are no immediate plans for the files' to go on display, it is assumed they will be able to be seen by the public, periodically, to mark anniversaries of the former First Lady, who died in 1994.